Sovereign Birthkeeper

Supporting, loving and trusting women in pregnancy, birth and beyond

Your birth is yours

Village Birth brings women’s wisdom of the childbearing years back to the local community by providing women with the knowledge, skills and opportunities to make their own autonomous choices during their perinatal journeys.

Hello Women,

My name is Mia, Birth keeper and creator of Village Birth.

I am a Mother, a lover, a champion of physiological birth and passionate about women stepping into their power.

I am here to stand in solidarity with you, as you claim sovereignty in your birth and your life.

I am so glad you are here and cannot wait to work with you.

Mia from Village Birth

“It takes a village to raise a child but it takes a whole community to support a mother. Care for the mothers and the world is cared for.”

Navigating Your Choices

I am now offering one hour zoom sessions available to all pregnant women! 

Have you been receiving system based care and feel you need support in understanding all your options? Are you looking for truly honest information about your birthing choices? As a former medical midwife I can offer you the insights and wisdom around navigating the often difficult journey of system based maternity care.

Navigating Your Choices could be just the session for you if you have any questions or concerns regarding your pregnancy care so far. I am here to really listen and support you in finding the right path for YOU.

Offerings

What my clients are saying

  • “Mia is a truly remarkable woman, traditional midwife and advocate for women. Village birth came along right when we needed it, held space for us on our journey and supported us to achieve the birth we wanted. She is without a doubt the reason I had a smooth, calm and natural birth at home.”

    -Abi Brown (Pregnancy and Birth client)

  • “From the moment we met Mia, we knew she was the birthkeeper for us. Her calm and genuine presence was apparent and I am so glad our instincts were right and we chose her to help support the birth of our daughter. I felt so held before, during and after my labour by Mia. Held and supported to make the best decisions for me, my baby and our family. Mia encouraged and helped me to build a real and genuine sense of sovereignty and self responsibility around my labour, something that had been taken away from me with the birth of my son three years ago. I feel that I was guided to step back into my power by Mia and that is transformative for me and for my family. I felt safe and secure enough to step away from the NHS maternity antenatal,and postnatal services as Mia was there to answer any questions I might have and to give me confidence in my own wisdom as a woman and a mother to find the right answers for myself. I can honestly say that Mia's support has been invaluable in facilitating a wonderful, healing and transformative experience of birth and postpartum time. I cannot recommend her enough!”

    - Lucy Williams (Pregnancy, birth and postnatal client)

  • "Mia’s support pre birth and in the birth room was with utmost care, love and respect. I wish I could relive my birthing day again in slow motion and soak it all up again. She is so gentle and spiritually connected, and I thank her eternally for ensuring I had the most amazing free birth in my home. Any waves of worry that arose in my late pregnancy, she was there to soothe me instantly with her expert knowledge. My one wish for women would be to birth their babies with someone like Mia. We’d change the world. The best part of all was her true trust in me and my ability to birth my baby just as nature intended. She held space for me undisturbed whilst I caught my baby in my hands in the birth pool. The best gift of all. Thank you forever x "

    Rhiannon Hawes

  • "Mia held space and supported my first pregnancy and birth with my son. From the start Mia was extremely calming to be around and I knew I wanted her support throughout my journey. She offered a hands off approach during the birth which is exactly what I asked for. When my birth took much longer than expected, Mia gave me some exercises and practices to try to get the baby down and we even talked through emotional blocks and deservingness. I think for me, Mia’s presence is exactly what I needed, she made me feel safe, reassured and calm. And when I felt conflicted by offers of intervention she reminded me of what I actually wanted. She held me accountable and was my rock when I felt vulnerable. Thank you Mia, for your amazing grounded energy, you have bountiful information, insight, and presence for birth."

    Emma M (pregnancy and birth client) 

  • "Mia supported me virtually throughout my pregnancy and was on call via phone for the birth of my first child, at home. I also did the Birth in Power One to One coaching with her. Mia was the ideal support for me. She is knowledgeable, measured, and warm in her approach but doesn’t intrude on a mother’s space or decision making. Mia’s hands-off, intuitive guidance required me to tune in with my own body for answers, but she is also drawing from a wealth of experience having witnessed hundreds of births both inside and outside of the medical system. With Mia, therefore, I got the best of both worlds. She understands what is going on within every realm of the birth world and could give me that context to inform my own choices. When my labour began, I felt held and secure knowing that I could ask her anything I wanted at any time. I trusted her completely and can’t imagine going through pregnancy and labour without a wise woman there to guide me. I wholeheartedly recommend her to any mother, particularly one who wants to walk the line between having a sovereign birth and having an experienced professional at hand."

    Sabrina C (virtual birth support client) 

  • "After two traumatic births in the system, I came to Mia in the hope of finally having a different experience of pregnancy and birth. Thanks to her guidance, and the depth of her work, I managed to have the birth that I had always envisioned. I am incredibly thankful for all the healing that has come out of that experience for both me and my family and for all the power and strength that was given back to me through learning how to trust myself and to surrender to the gift and power of being a woman. I would recommend her work over and over to any woman on the journey of becoming a mother."

    Adriana C (pregnancy and birth client)